Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.